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Jeffrey Hulse to lead Verizon Partner Solutions, Debika Bhattacharya named Chief Technology Solutions Officer for Verizon Business

Verizon Business announced the appointment of Jeffrey Hulse as Senior Vice President and Group President of Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS). In this role, Hulse is responsible for domestic and international wholesale revenue growth and strategy for Verizon Business, including marketing, sales, customer service and wholesale business operations. He will report directly to Kyle Malady, CEO […]

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Sowmyanarayan Sampath named CEO & EVP of Verizon Business

Verizon announced the appointment of Sowmyanarayan Sampath to Executive Vice President and CEO of Verizon Business, effective July 1, 2022. He will succeed Tami Erwin, who will assume the role of Strategic Advisor to the CEO until the end of 2022. Sampath will report directly to Hans Vestberg, Verizon Chairman and CEO.  “Sampath brings more […]

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Eric Spadafora named VP and GM at BlueJeans by Verizon

Verizon Business announced the appointment of Eric Spadafora as the new VP and General Manager (GM) of BlueJeans by Verizon. This also marks the one-year anniversary of Verizon’s acquisition of BlueJeans, a premiere enterprise video conferencing solution and an integral part of the Advanced Communications portfolio within Verizon Business. “Eric is poised to take us […]

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IBM, Verizon Business collaborate on 5G and AI solutions

Verizon Business and IBM announced that they are entering into a collaboration to work together on 5G and edge computing innovation to help enable the future of Industry 4.0. The companies plan to collaborate on solutions combining the high speed and low latency of Verizon’s 5G and Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) capabilities, IoT devices and […]